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The more you walk, the better for your health

Need another push to participate in The Pink Walk? The largest study on the benefits of walking ever published concludes that for every 500 to 1,000 extra steps a day, you boost your health. From more than 4,000 steps, a benefit is demonstrable and at 20,000 steps you still have health benefits.

Published August 9, 2023, the study* analyzes the impact of walking on health in more than 220,000 healthy adults. In fact, it is a review study that took the results of 17 studies on walking and health together. This is called a meta-analysis. This is what came out. Anyone who takes fewer than 4,000 steps a day is not exactly living an active lifestyle. On the contrary, to science you are then a "sedentary person": you spend less than 10 percent of your daily energy consumption on (moderate) physical activity. You don't have to add many steps to that to already have a noticeable health effect: with 500 steps extra, you already have 7% less risk of dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease. If you take an extra 1,000 steps a day, your chances of survival already improve by 15%. The benefit continues to grow the more steps you take per day. What is new in this research is the observation that there is no upper limit: you get more benefits from 20,000 steps than from 10,000 steps a day, for example. How far this continues is not known, since there are hardly any people who take more than 20,000 steps a day.

It makes no difference whether you are young or old, male or female. Walking is a blessing for health.

*Maciej Banach et al. The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a meta-analysis, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2023 August 9th.

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